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<li class="Element600">The I<sup>2</sup>C driver is built on top of the I2C peripheral library</li>
<li class="Element600">The I<sup>2</sup>C driver registers a callback with the underlying I<sup>2</sup>C peripheral library to receive transfer related events from the peripheral library. The I<sup>2</sup>C driver callback is called by the peripheral library from the interrupt context</li>
<li class="Element600">Once the transfer is complete, the driver calls the callback registered by the application from the interrupt context or the application can poll the status of the transfer</li>
<li class="Element600">Each instance of the driver (in asynchronous/non-blocking mode) has a dedicated queue which can be configured using the MHC configuration options. The requests submitted by the clients are queued in the respective driver instance request queue</li>
<li class="Element600">The I<sup>2</sup>C driver is capable of supporting multiple instances of the I<sup>2</sup>C peripheral</li>
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<strong>Slave Address Format:</strong>&nbsp;</p>
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The slave address format used to submit the transfer request is shown below&nbsp;</p>
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